[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1478 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1478

  To provide that private land use rules be treated as State or local 
 regulation for purposes of certain Federal Communications Commission 
                              regulations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 27, 2003

 Mr. Israel (for himself, Mr. Walden of Oregon, Mr. Ross, Mr. Tiberi, 
Mr. Bartlett of Maryland, Mr. Berry, Ms. Baldwin, Mrs. McCarthy of New 
  York, Mr. Moore, Mr. Taylor of North Carolina, Mrs. Jo Ann Davis of 
   Virginia, Mr. Boucher, Mr. McNulty, and Mr. Hall) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide that private land use rules be treated as State or local 
 regulation for purposes of certain Federal Communications Commission 
                              regulations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Amateur Radio Emergency 
Communications Consistency Act''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF PRIVATE LAND USE RULES AS LOCAL REGULATION.

    For purposes of the Federal Communications Commission's regulation 
relating to station antenna structures in the amateur radio services 
(47 CFR 97.15), any private land use rules applicable to such 
structures shall be treated as a State or local regulation and shall be 
subject to the same requirements and limitations as a State or local 
regulation.
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